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November 2018
Celine-Marie Pascale, Catherine M Schaeff
This pilot case study sought to examine the efficacy of subtle energy treatments as conducted by Buddhist healing master Segyu Rinpoche at his Juniper Integrative Clinic in Northern California. Over the course of a year, this study followed two patients with terminal diagnoses, their treating physicians, and Segyu Rinpoche as the patients underwent treatment at the Juniper Clinic. The patients...
The Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
November 1, 2018
Randy Wolbert
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can be conceptualized as the transaction between behaviour therapy and Zen contemplative practice, held together with a dialectical philosophy. When first developed, mindfulness practices had not yet been incorporated into psychotherapy. Marsha Linehan chose to augment behaviour therapy with Zen practice. This chapter begins with a brief history of Zen and...
Routledge eBooks
October 24, 2018
D. T. Suzuki
The following are translations in English of some of Saichi’s utterances. As I have said before, there are several thousands of such items in his journals, and there is no doubt that they are good material for students of religious experiences. My attempt here is, however poor the translations, to afford the reader a glimpse into Saichi’s inner life. Unless one has a thorough mastery of both...
Routledge eBooks
October 24, 2018
Hubert Nearman, Master P.t.n.h. Jiyu-Kennett, Daizui Macphillamy
2 citations
Bodhidharma, the great Indian Ancestor, is credited by the Zen Tradition with having introduced the practice of Serene Reflection Meditation into China some time near the beginning of the sixth century c.e. It is said that after he arrived in South China by sea, he went to the court of the emperor Wu of the Liang dynastic family, where he found great commitment on the part of both the emperor...
Humanities
October 22, 2018
Paul E. Nelson
Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, poetics or cultural activism; Jack Kerouac’s prose, poetry and his method of composition; Gary Snyder’s environmental and Buddhist consciousness and bioregional ethos, or the opening made by the Beats for Eastern spirituality in the west are of intrinsic value and will be for generations, this paper seeks to posit that it is Michael McClure’s use of Projective Verse,...
Religionswissenschaft
October 18, 2018
In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the...
Journal of Happiness Studies
October 9, 2018
Richard E. Whitehead, G. Bates, Brad Elphinstone et al.
The Buddhist construct of nonattachment is a related, yet distinct construct to mindfulness. Whereas mindfulness refers to an individual’s open, present-centred awareness of what is happening in their field of consciousness, nonattachment denotes an absence of attempts to control what is happening in their field of consciousness. The aim of the present research was to determine whether...
History of the Human Sciences
October 1, 2018
Matthew Drage
6 citations
In this article I examine an important episode in the growth of ‘mindfulness’ as a biomedical modality in Britain: the formation and establishment of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) by John Teasdale and his colleagues Mark Williams and Zindel Segal. My study, focusing on Teasdale’s contribution, combines ethnographic, oral historical and archival research to understand how...
Journal of Religion and Health
October 1, 2018
Miyuru Chandradasa, Chamara Wijesinghe, K A L A Kuruppuarachchi et al.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a wide range of experiences that occur in association with impending death. There are no published studies on NDEs in general hospital populations, and studies have been mainly conducted on critically ill patients. We assessed the prevalence of NDEs and its associations in a multi-religious population in a general hospital in Sri Lanka. A randomised sample of...
Open Theology
October 1, 2018
Bermant Gordon
Dennis Hirota is a modern master of Shin Buddhism who for several decades has explicated the role of natural language in fostering Buddhist awakening. At the core of his oeuvre is the claim that Shin Buddhism’s founder, Shinran Shonin (1173-1263), accepted the earlier Mahayana teaching of nondual awareness as a necessary condition for awakening. Shinran’s unique contribution was to insist that...